Blog Post #21: Witch and Wizard Setting

The book Witch and Wizard by James Patterson is taking place in a world where the United States is taken over by a new government, the New Order as they call themselves. This government has a huge toleration of literature, music, and magic. Under the new government, tons of kids are arrested and thrown into prison without a fair trial. Two of the kids were Whit and Whisty Execution is what the people get if they are witches or wizards. The setting is pretty modern accept for the magic and government.

The setting of this book is symbolic because it shows how the government changed after just a couple of elections. It showed how something can change in such little time without any way to stop it. Having a country being taken over by a whole new government and having all the laws change shows how bad something can be if people do not carefully do things. Whit and Whisty were taken away by the government and were forced to starve. I think that the setting plays a big role in this book because of the time of need between all of the children that had unfair laws against them.

Maybe one day the government might be taken over by a new one that is out to destroy all children that cause trouble. If the United States was taken over by a new government would the United States be ready? I was thinking about this when I thought about the setting of this book. What if we were not ready for the new government and everything will go terribly wrong? The United States would come crashing down. The setting of this book is very important because if the United States’ government was not taken over there would be no story.

In conclusion the setting of the book Witch and Wizard is really important because it can happen to our government. It is the building mount of the book, if this was not the setting nothing would happen to Whit or Whisty and they would have never knew they had special powers. The setting created unfair laws for everyone and it made people lose a lot.